Place in Tehran to be named after Ayat. Rafsanjani

Mojtaba Shakeri, head of a committee in Tehran City Council, told IRNA on Tuesday that Tehran squares, parks and other places will be examined for that end.

The funeral procession of Ayatollah Rafsanjani, the late chairman of the Expediency Council, started at 10 am at Tehran University on Tuesday.

Heads of the three branches of the government, members of the Expediency Council, cabinet members, president's deputies, Majlis (Parliament) representatives, senior Iranian military commanders, Friday prayers leaders, provincial officials and a huge number of Iranians from all walks of life attended the ceremony.

Ayatollah Rafsanjani, the former Iranian president, died on Sunday at the age of 82 due to a heart attack in a Tehran hospital.

Rafsanjani, a veteran cleric, a pillar of the Islamic Revolution and a leading politician, served in different positions after 1979 Islamic Revolution.

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